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Mating Season by Kitty Thomas Published by Burlesque Press on July 17, 2024
Genres: Paranormal Romance
Pages: 127
Format: eARC
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Pop Quiz: You’re a woman alone in the forest… would you rather run into a man or a bear?
I’m lost out in the woods when I cross paths with a strange man. He offers to take me back to his campsite, feed me, get me warm, but every instinct in me screams NO!
He is an opportunistic predator, and I am his prey.
I run. He chases. And just before I’m traumatized for life, I hear a loud roar as a seven hundred pound Grizzly bear rips the man off me and mauls him to death.
So…. Team Bear?
If only it were so simple. This isn’t just any normal bear. He’s a bear shifter, and he’s convinced I’m his fated mate.
I appreciate the life saving and all, but I have goals and dreams, and I won’t allow fate to play matchmaker for me, no matter how otherwise appealing the shifter in question may be.
I had a good time with this story. It is a cute stand-alone PNR. Rosealie is walking at night in the forest. She doesn’t mean to get lost, but it happens. And as you would expect, a man tries to do exactly what the internet was talking about and rape her. Well then a bear comes along to save her. He’s a bear shifter and she’s his fated mate.
There are some other stuff that goes on, but I don’t want to spoil it. It isn’t a long story, but it was an enjoyable novella length story. I had a good time with it.
I started listening to audiobooks when a new book in a series was coming out and I wanted to get a refresher, but didn’t have time to read all the books (I think it was Anita Blake). I fell in love. I stayed with strictly re-reading books that I’d already read for a long time. I eventually tried an audiobook for something that I hadn’t read first and was hooked there too. Now, I listen to audio for both re-reads and first time. I have some series that I’ve given up reading and only listen. I try to get any many books/audiobooks from the library to help save on my budget. Books on CD and the newer digital downloads from the library really allow me to listen more. I then purchase my favorites (because who can wait in line for your favorite book??) and less mainstream books from Audible or some other online retailer.
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I love that whole Pop Quiz/Team Bear? blurb. That alone had me laughing. This does sound like a fun read. 😀
Oh this sounds like my kind of book for sure.
Might check this out. I need some short stories/novellas